Charlotte Burington's life has taken a turn for the worse. As the daughter of a veteran British General sent to the Colonies to fight against 'those damned Rebels', she finds herself exiled to the 18th century provincial town of Darby, Pennsylvania, where life couldn't get any duller! Until one day her little sister Augusta makes a startling discovery which will propel Charlotte on an exciting and dangerous course that will alter her life and her destiny forever. "And then she saw him. Like something out of one of the novels she had read when she was at school - the ones her mother forbade."